Re: [expert] Going Crazy over IDE CD-writer

[John Aldrich]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Additions to /etc/fstab:
> > /dev/sda /mnt/zip vfat exec,user,noauto,rw,suid,dev 0 0
> > /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,suid,exec,dev,ro 0 1
> > (former entries for zip and cdrom removed)
> 
> Question, though: why is /dev/sr0 mounted ro, even though it
> is a CD-RW?
> 
Simple: When you MOUNT the CDRW drive, you're treating it
as a standard CDROM. You don't mount a CDRW drive when
burning a CD. :-)
        John